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typist

[tahy-pist] / ˈtaɪ pɪst /


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It’s for any typist in your life, especially millennials nostalgic for the see-through gadgets.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 23, 2025

I also became a very fast typist because I was in charge of taking field notes and sometimes I’d have three producers running on-the-fly interviews all at once.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2024

Referring to the late British scientist who had motor neurone disease, he added: "Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist or auctioneer. That is the goal."

From BBC Jan. 29, 2024

“I remember my days as a waiter, cleaner, typist, even my time on the unemployment line,” Ms. Streep said in a statement.

From New York Times Aug. 2, 2023

Father didn’t have a lot of people working in his office, just Mr. Kugler, Mr. Kleiman, Miep and a twenty-three-year-old typist named Bep Voskuijl, all of whom were informed of our coming.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Pen-and-ink clerks who struggled to top 20 words a minute were displaced by typists who could top 60 wpm, especially if they used new touch-typing techniques pioneered by a Cincinnati stenographer, Elizabeth Longley.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 15, 2025

This kept an entire pool of court reporters, secretaries, and typists endlessly busy for the duration of the nearly yearlong proceedings.

From Slate Mar. 16, 2024

By recording the sounds of someone typing on a keyboard while using Zoom, researchers Joshua Harrison, Ehsan Toreini and Maryam Mehrnezhad said they discovered a way to reveal what the typists write.

From Washington Times Aug. 7, 2023

“Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress,” Quant once said.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 13, 2023

He could never really remember the names of his clerks and typists.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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